x2go under KDE on F22

[Roderick Johnstone]

On 25/03/2015 12:02, Neal Becker wrote:
> Neal Becker wrote:
>
>> Roderick Johnstone wrote:
>>
>>> On 24/03/15 21:36, Luigi Toscano wrote:
>>>> Roderick Johnstone ha scritto:
>>>>> Hi
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm interested to find out whether the remote desktop system x2go
>>>>> (http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php), is going to work in F22 under KDE.
>>>>>
>>>>> x2go is documented to be incompatible with 'KDE 5'
>>>>> (http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:de-compat) but I notice that there
>>>>> are still seem to be (at least) parts of KDE 4 in F22.
>>>>
>>>> According the description, it seems incompatible with the desktop Plasma
>>>> 5. The parts you mention are the kdelibs4-based applications available
>>>> in F22, which don't have a Frameworks-based release.
>>>>
>>>> Ciao
>>>>
>>>
>>> Luigi
>>>
>>> Thanks for your comment.
>>>
>>> Thats a pity. Our research group are long time KDE on Fedora users and
>>> its good if people can have the same desktop experience both on remote
>>> (x2go) and local (desktop) logins.
>>>
>>> I did notice that the development/22/x86_64/os/Packages tree has the
>>> packages:
>>> kde-workspace-common-4.11.16-7.fc22.noarch.rpm
>>> kde-workspace-devel-4.11.16-7.fc22.x86_64.rpm
>>>
>>> and had hoped that there might there be some legacy kde4 desktop support.
>>>
>>> On closer examination now I see that the common package only contains a
>>> few text files and there is no kde-workspace package as such.
>>>
>>> Oh well, I guess there is always F21 to keep us going for a few more
>>> months. From what I read on the x2go lists (IIRC) there will be a big
>>> project to update the X11 server in x2go to something modern which will
>>> support KDE 5 but there is no timescale for that as of now.
>>>
>>> Roderick
>>
>> Oh that's unfortunate - I really depend on x2go.  There are alternatives,
>> but not nearly as nice.
>>
>
> I looked at the compat chart here:
> http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:de-compat
>
> Is this talking about the client-side or server-side?  I want to run kde on
> my client (my laptop) - don't care that much about the remote server.
>

Neal

Based on the context of the first paragraph of that page I had read it 
as saying that you cannot cannot connect to a server that runs a KDE 5 
session.

Roderick